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WWW - World Wide Web
Personal Computers attached to Server Computers attached to each other by the world's Telephone System. The Server Computers maintain an open line to the Phone Company.
URL - Universal Resource Locator
How resources are addressed on the World Wide Web.
http://www.ford.com/
http://members.tripod.com/budstewart/southampton.htm
http://204.198.80.3/thpl/erc/scfn/scfn.htm
file://c:/html/default.htm
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
Almost all Server Computers honor requests for sending and receiving data via this protocol.
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
- Made the Internet what it is!
- Almost all home pages are written in this language.
- Very simple language.
- Very flexible language.
- Browsers (like Netscape, Explorer) interpret HTML.
- 67 commands.
- Most people use less than 20 of them.
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
The original protocol used on the Internet to transfer files. Still used to this day to upload your HTML and image files up to your server's computer.
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